AUSTIN McKINLEY is a multiple award-winning author, cartoonist and video producer. He was the 2011 grand prize winner of the national TVMe television treatment contest, and the Florida Film Network’s 2012 Operation: Logline contest, which facilitated the production of his third short film, “Quicklime.” His short film “Life in a Glass House” took home an honorable mention from the 2013 Boston Science Fiction Film Festival. Austin’s worked in video games, comic books, local television, and created video segments for live performances with the Sarasota Orchestra. He wrote and illustrated Squareasota, a weekly cartoon in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune for seven years. He lives and works in Sarasota.

SHERRIE McKINLEY has been producing films with Austin since 2008. They met doing student theater at Ringling College of Art & Design, where Sherrie co-directed Marcus Alexander Hart’s science fiction sex farce “Walkin’ on Sunshine.” She's proud to have been a part of such fine film crews, and is constantly inspired and humbled by their many talents. She enjoys facilitating the logistics necessary to bring their vision to life. Sherrie is a graphic design manager for the Sarasota Orchestra where she concepts and produces marketing materials and art directs photo shoots.